Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "Johnny Depp Wins Defamation Lawsuit Against Amber Heard" video.

  1. Normally, I'd say who cares about the scandals of celebs but this was an important socio-political event wrapped up in metoo. Even someone like Johnny Depp with 4 decades of work playing iconic characters beloved by millions and was rich and handsome was suddenly dirt within days of Amber Heard's accusations. I remember some of the woke twitter mob threatening to block followers if they supported Depp (those tweets aged well). The point of this trial win or lose was to get back his reputation but the bigger point is that if it can happened to someone like Depp it can happen to anyone. The power of accusation is too strong for opportunists and abusers to ignore and in this particular type of situation those would be women exploiting society's double standards and virtue signaling of going after the bad man to save the poor innocent girl. Had Depp not made these recordings his career and reputation would still be in the dumps. As for Metoo or this version of it while it did take down men that needed to be taken down like Weinstein, at its core it was bound to fail because it was rotted from within with selfish purpose. The first person to suggest the phrase was ignored by the media because she was an unfamous black woman but a decade later once privileged famous white women started using it suddenly the media was all over it. And this version only got rolling because Rose McGowan left her purse with drugs on a plane. Later another leader of the movement was revealed to have had sex with an underage boy. And during that time in the Metoo frenzy where a bad date could be considered something more sinister (Aziz), Heard decided to use the socio-political climate to her advantage against Depp and as mentioned above despite all his advantages, he was suddenly Quasimodo overnight to use his own words. In the end, I think this mess should teach us to take each incident on a case by case basis, not rush to conclusions with pitchforks and torches, and to be aware there are always grifters and opportunists out there willing to exploit such social climates.
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